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For pediatric blunt trauma patients…
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April 8, 2018 at 3:22 pm
There is not a lot of literature on this topic. Experts have endorsed working up pediatric patients with microscopic hematuria of 20-50 wbc/hpf. Perez-Brayfield et al retrospecitively studied 110 patients with blunt trauma and hematuria aged 1-18yr, mean 9yr (J Urology 2002;167:2543) and recommended work-up for > 50 rbc, hypotension, severe mechanism of injury such as high speed MVA deceleration injury. Santucci et al retrospectively studied 720 patients with suspected renal injury (59 injuries identified) aged 0-17 yr, mean 8yr (J Urology 2004;171:822) and recommended work-up if gross hematuria, shock, significant deceleration injury (similar to criteria used for adult patients).